Gender and Landscape
Title | Gender and Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Josephine Carubia |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134300832 |
This volume, a feminist inquiry into the landscape, provides a bridge between feminist discussions of space and place and landscape interpretations.
Women in Landscape Architecture
Title | Women in Landscape Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Louise A. Mozingo |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2011-12-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 078648733X |
While many fields struggle to specify feminine contributions, the work of women has always played a fundamental role in American landscape architecture. Women claim responsibility for many landscape types now taken for granted, including community gardens, playgrounds, and streetscapes. This collection of essays by leaders in the discipline addresses the ways that gender has influenced the history, design practice and perception of landscapes. It highlights women's relation to landscape architecture, presents the professional efforts of women in the landscape realm, examines both the perception and experience of landscapes by women, and speculates on ways to re-imagine gender and the landscape.
Landscape and Gender in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy
Title | Landscape and Gender in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Eithne Henson |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2013-05-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1409479072 |
Examining a wide range of representations of physical, metaphorical, and dream landscapes in Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy, Eithne Henson explores the way in which gender attitudes are expressed, both in descriptions of landscape as the human body and in ideas of nature. Henson discusses the influence of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory, particularly on Brontë and Eliot, and argues that Ruskinian aesthetics, Darwinism, and other scientific preoccupations of an industrializing economy, changed constructions of landscape in the later nineteenth century. Henson examines the conventions of reading landscape, including the implied expectations of the reader, the question of the gendered narrator, how place defines the kind of action and characters in the novels, the importance of landscape in creating mood, the pastoral as a moral marker for readers, and the influence of changing aesthetic theory on the implied painterly models that the three authors reproduce in their work. She also considers how each writer defines the concept of Englishness against an internal or colonial Other. Alongside these concerns, Henson interrogates the ancient trope that equates woman with nature, and the effect of comparing women to natural objects or offering them as objects of the male gaze, typically to diminish or control them. Informed by close readings, Henson's study offers an original approach to the significances of landscape in the 'realist' nineteenth-century novel.
Gendering Landscape Art
Title | Gendering Landscape Art PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Adams |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Gender identity in art |
ISBN | 9780719056284 |
While gender has been the subject of extensive critical inquiry, the debate has focused primarily on the human, particularly the female, body. The spaces bodies occupy and the ways in which those spaces are depicted in landscape art has not, however, been subject to investigation. This book is the first sustained attempt to fill this gap in art history.
Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture
Title | Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture PDF eBook |
Author | Sonja Dümpelmann |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 271 |
Release | 2015-02-11 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1317556550 |
Modernity was critically important to the formation and evolution of landscape architecture, yet its histories in the discipline are still being written. This book looks closely at the work and influences of some of the least studied figures of the era: established and less well-known female landscape architects who pursued modernist ideals in their designs. The women discussed in this volume belong to the pioneering first two generations of professional landscape architects and were outstanding in the field. They not only developed notable practices but some also became leaders in landscape architectural education as the first professors in the discipline, or prolific lecturers and authors. As early professionals who navigated the world of a male-dominated intellectual and menial work force they were exponents of modernity. In addition, many personalities discussed in this volume were either figures of transition between tradition and modernism (like Silvia Crowe, Maria Teresa Parpagliolo), or they fully embraced and furthered the modernist agenda (like Rosa Kliass, Cornelia Oberlander). The chapters offer new perspectives and contribute to the development of a more balanced and integrated landscape architectural historiography of the twentieth century. Contributions come from practitioners and academics who discuss women based in USA, Canada, Brazil, New Zealand, South Africa, the former USSR, Sweden, Britain, Germany, Austria, France and Italy. Ideal reading for those studying landscape history, women’s studies and cultural geography.
Landscape with Sex and Violence
Title | Landscape with Sex and Violence PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Melnick |
Publisher | YesYes Books |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781936919550 |
The poems in Landscape with Sex and Violence explore what it means to be a woman, a sexual being, and a trauma survivor in contemporary America.
Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830
Title | Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830 PDF eBook |
Author | Briony McDonagh |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 335 |
Release | 2017-08-14 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1317145119 |
Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830 offers a detailed study of elite women’s relationships with landed property, specifically as they were mediated through the lens of their estate management and improvement. This highly original book provides an explicitly feminist historical geography of the eighteenth-century English rural landscape. It addresses important questions about propertied women’s role in English rural communities and in Georgian society more generally, whilst contributing to wider cultural debates about women’s place in the environmental, social and economic history of Britain. It will be of interest to those working in Historical and Cultural Geography, Social, Economic and Cultural History, Women’s Studies, Gender Studies and Landscape Studies. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.